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Saturday, July 30, 2011

Bert is extremely well behaved around the chickens, even when being subjected to close scrutiny by (the recently named) Mr. Fancy Pants(look how less fancy he used to be!) or surrounded by a feathered forum. Now if only he would pay so little attention to eggs. Yep, our beagle pup Bert is an egg thief, and Mr. Fancy Pants is inspecting a shell.

Some of our free ranging hens prefer to lay their eggs in nests on the ground in various spots around the farmyard rather than in the nesting boxes that hang several feet off the floor in their coop, and it didn't take Bert long to figure that out.

I really can't blame him for devouring something tasty he discovered all by himself—all four of our dogs are always finding things to eat around the farm—but it did take a while before we figured out that egg production hadn't actually gone down.

Now that Bert is well aware that egg stealing isn't allowed, the thievery has mostly stopped—or he's just gotten a whole lot sneakier.

I hope you're staying out of trouble this weekend—or at least aren't getting caught!

Want to get to know Bert better? Read the story of how he joined the farm familyhere, and then see what he's been up tohere.

My Aunt Bea used to say "there's nothing worse than an egg-suckin' dog." I think she was referring to a politician at the time. And I disagree, a dog that kills chickens is much worse. A friend says her horses will eat eggs, too, if a hen happens to lay in their manger.

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